1982
Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime
and Imprisonment by US States

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

Alabama

3,943,000

4,633.6

447.7

4,185.8

10.6

26.0

112.0

299.1

1,256.2

2,656.4

273.3

218.6

866.3

4.0

Alaska

438,000

6,212.6

623.7

5,588.8

18.5

85.4

133.8

386.1

1,188.1

3,806.4

594.3

194.0

1182.6

6.1

Arizona

2,860,000

7,131.0

517.0

6,614.0

8.3

38.5

158.6

311.6

1,883.3

4,360.9

369.8

209.3

1178.4

5.6

Arkansas

2,291,000

3,871.5

324.7

3,546.9

8.2

27.1

78.8

210.6

1,071.5

2,289.4

186.0

171.0

679.4

4.0

California

24,724,000

7,285.5

814.7

6,470.7

11.2

50.7

372.1

380.7

2,020.2

3,785.1

665.5

135.3

1461.8

10.8

Colorado

3,045,000

7,079.9

504.2

6,575.7

6.0

44.5

150.6

303.1

1,749.1

4,429.3

397.3

99.4

1161.8

11.7

Connecticut

3,153,000

5,427.5

399.5

5,028.0

5.2

21.9

208.5

163.9

1,410.8

3,065.0

552.2

99.7

902.3

9.1

Delaware

602,000

6,384.9

559.8

5,825.1

5.3

30.9

122.4

401.2

1,444.9

3,968.6

411.6

252.5

1142.3

4.5

Florida

10,416,000

7,465.2

896.8

6,568.4

13.5

53.6

297.6

532.0

2,034.7

4,103.9

429.8

259.2

1553.6

6.0

Georgia

5,639,000

5,214.8

478.2

4,736.6

12.6

39.8

154.6

271.2

1,497.9

2,926.9

311.7

248.5

951.9

3.8

Hawaii

994,000

6,584.3

255.7

6,328.6

3.1

34.4

156.9

61.3

1,657.6

4,250.3

420.6

90.9

888.6

9.8

Idaho

965,000

4,083.2

259.2

3,824.0

2.5

16.6

30.3

209.8

1,031.9

2,617.2

174.9

107.2

641.6

6.0

Illinois

11,448,000

5,840.3

774.3

5,066.0

8.8

29.9

346.8

388.8

1,373.8

3,093.2

599.0

122.1

1280.9

10.5

Indiana

5,471,000

4,429.5

300.6

4,128.9

6.5

27.8

109.0

157.2

1,088.8

2,713.5

326.6

151.7

713.5

4.7

Iowa

2,905,000

4,136.5

172.7

3,963.8

2.3

12.5

36.2

121.8

947.8

2,842.3

173.7

98.0

569.1

5.8

Kansas

2,408,000

4,952.0

335.9

4,616.1

5.7

24.8

87.0

218.4

1,344.8

3,048.8

222.5

128.2

797.5

6.2

Kentucky

3,667,000

3,568.4

315.0

3,253.4

9.7

20.0

97.3

188.0

1,029.1

1,991.3

233.1

109.4

640.3

5.9

Louisiana

4,362,000

5,311.2

669.1

4,642.1

16.0

39.9

212.6

400.6

1,424.8

2,881.7

335.6

251.1

1133.3

4.5

Maine

1,133,000

3,859.8

163.0

3,696.7

2.1

13.4

30.5

117.0

1,047.0

2,459.2

190.6

78.5

532.7

6.8

Maryland

4,265,000

6,012.4

850.0

5,162.3

10.1

37.4

360.5

441.9

1,419.6

3,350.6

392.1

257.6

1366.2

5.3

Massachusetts

5,781,000

5,503.7

571.4

4,932.4

3.8

25.3

213.8

328.5

1,422.1

2,541.7

968.6

73.4

1064.6

14.5

Michigan

9,109,000

6,784.5

656.6

6,128.0

9.1

46.6

271.1

329.7

1,813.1

3,623.1

691.7

163.6

1269.4

7.8

Minnesota

4,133,000

4,454.6

219.3

4,235.4

2.3

22.7

101.3

92.9

1,182.1

2,815.8

237.6

50.4

642.8

12.8

Mississippi

2,551,000

3,572.6

294.6

3,278.0

14.0

26.5

73.0

181.1

1,183.8

1,940.6

153.6

209.6

622.4

3.0

Missouri

4,951,000

4,947.8

506.5

4,441.3

9.7

25.9

193.0

278.0

1,391.3

2,714.3

335.8

151.0

950.6

6.3

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

Montana

801,000

4,333.2

224.8

4,108.4

3.9

14.9

33.1

173.0

843.8

3,006.1

258.4

113.7

635.6

5.6

Nebraska

1,586,000

3,950.8

229.6

3,721.2

2.0

20.7

61.9

145.0

811.3

2,732.1

177.9

100.1

601.7

6.0

Nevada

881,000

7,901.0

805.4

7,095.6

13.6

61.5

419.6

310.7

2,412.7

4,117.9

564.9

312.3

1515.0

4.9

New
Hampshire

951,000

3,829.2

124.8

3,704.4

2.2

16.2

33.9

72.6

945.0

2,535.8

223.7

47.0

495.2

10.5

New
Jersey

7,438,000

5,676.1

607.4

5,068.8

6.5

28.9

307.6

264.4

1,430.7

3,011.3

626.8

107.5

1114.3

10.4

New
Mexico

1,359,000

6,607.7

734.5

5,873.1

11.6

48.3

126.2

548.4

1,628.8

3,929.5

314.9

106.1

1321.8

12.5

New
York

17,659,000

6,468.1

990.1

5,478.1

11.4

29.2

610.7

338.7

1,671.9

3,025.3

780.8

158.9

1537.9

9.7

North
Carolina

6,019,000

4,543.2

446.3

4,096.9

9.1

22.0

85.9

329.5

1,309.0

2,603.4

184.5

255.0

856.0

3.4

North
Dakota

670,000

2,648.1

61.8

2,586.3

0.7

9.9

12.7

38.5

458.8

1,987.2

140.3

41.3

320.4

7.8

Ohio

10,791,000

4,935.5

436.7

4,498.8

6.3

29.9

183.6

217.0

1,309.6

2,807.5

381.7

161.0

886.6

5.5

Oklahoma

3,177,000

5,222.4

443.9

4,778.5

10.8

37.1

132.8

263.2

1,603.9

2,685.7

488.9

202.7

921.8

4.5

Oregon

2,649,000

6,567.5

473.0

6,094.5

5.1

39.9

167.3

260.6

1,789.7

4,003.8

301.0

146.4

1082.5

7.4

Pennsylvania

11,865,000

3,452.8

360.4

3,092.3

5.7

20.6

175.4

158.7

900.7

1,859.4

332.2

88.2

669.6

7.6

Rhode
Island

958,000

5,364.1

401.8

4,962.3

3.7

19.4

114.7

264.0

1,400.2

2,826.4

735.7

81.9

898.0

11.0

South
Carolina

3,203,000

5,361.2

720.0

4,641.2

10.9

38.8

122.4

547.9

1,490.9

2,872.6

277.7

269.0

1184.1

4.4

South
Dakota

691,000

2,644.9

99.0

2,545.9

2.7

11.4

17.1

67.7

562.2

1,865.3

118.4

109.3

353.6

3.2

Tennessee

4,651,000

4,413.6

421.1

3,992.5

9.7

35.5

175.7

200.2

1,288.6

2,371.9

332.0

169.4

820.4

4.8

Texas

15,280,000

6,302.2

577.1

5,725.1

16.1

44.6

220.0

296.3

1,871.5

3,283.6

570.1

235.8

1149.6

4.9

Utah

1,554,000

5,334.0

285.7

5,048.3

3.4

23.7

86.5

172.1

1,106.9

3,689.9

251.5

76.9

790.5

10.3

Vermont

516,000

4,691.9

126.9

4,564.9

2.3

34.9

23.1

66.7

1,178.3

3,131.8

254.8

83.8

583.4

7.0

Virginia

5,491,000

4,255.7

309.1

3,946.7

7.4

24.9

122.2

154.6

973.5

2,789.1

184.1

176.9

703.8

4.0

Washington

4,245,000

6,282.2

406.4

5,875.8

4.4

45.9

117.9

238.3

1,680.1

3,914.9

280.8

146.5

994.0

6.8

West
Virginia

1,948,000

2,511.2

174.8

2,336.4

5.2

15.5

49.8

104.3

717.9

1,435.4

183.1

79.4

408.4

5.1

Wisconsin

4,765,000

4,439.1

190.5

4,248.6

3.1

14.3

71.2

101.9

977.2

3,088.7

182.7

99.7

615.4

6.2

Wyoming

502,000

4,804.0

304.2

4,499.8

9.2

27.1

34.3

233.7

882.9

3,367.1

249.8

138.6

754.2

5.4

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

Horizontally
across the page are the categories.Vertically
along the left side are the states the categories
apply to.

State
= the State the crimes took place in.Population
= the population of the state as
estimated by the US Census Bureau. The
crime and inmate rates are both per 100,000 people for the year.Index
= the total number of reported crimes per
100,000 people for the year.Violent
Crime = the total number for each of the violent crime categories per
100,000
people for the year. Property
Crime =
the total number of the property crime categories per 100,000 people
for the
year. The
same applies for each of the
crime categories: Murder - Rape
- Robbery - Assault
- Burglary - Larceny
- Auto.

For
the Years 1978 to present there are three more
categories.The Inmate category =
the
number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal
correctional
authorities, on December 31. New
Index *
= Developed by the Disaster Center to examine how punishment is being
applied
to crimes. The
old index measured all
crime equally. One violent crime was equal to one property crime. There
are about ten times more property crimes than violent crimes.Half
of people are imprisoned for violent
crime and half for non-violent crime.To
make things relatively equal, we divided property crimes by ten and
added that
total to the number of reported violent crimes to create the new index.
.Index/
Inmates = We divide the new crime index
by the number of prisoners reported for each year to compare crime to
punishment
each year between the states and over the years.

For the table below we ranked each category with the highest rate
ranking 1 and the lowest ranking 50.

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

Alabama

22

31

21

33

13

29

30

17

29

37

30

10

27

5

Alaska

50

14

11

13

1

1

22

8

30

10

8

14

10

27

Arizona

29

4

16

2

22

14

18

14

4

2

19

12

11

21

Arkansas

33

42

31

44

23

27

37

29

36

44

40

16

35

6

California

1

3

4

5

10

4

3

9

3

11

5

26

4

45

Colorado

27

5

18

3

28

9

21

16

8

1

16

38

12

47

Connecticut

26

19

28

19

32

37

12

36

21

20

11

37

23

38

Delaware

47

11

15

11

31

20

26

5

16

7

15

6

14

10

Florida

7

2

2

4

6

3

7

3

2

5

13

3

1

25

Georgia

12

25

19

23

7

12

20

20

14

25

26

8

20

4

Hawaii

39

8

39

6

40

19

19

49

11

3

14

40

25

40

Idaho

40

40

38

40

43

42

47

30

38

38

46

33

38

24

Illinois

5

16

6

17

21

21

5

7

24

18

7

28

7

43

Indiana

14

35

35

34

26

25

31

38

35

35

24

21

33

12

Iowa

28

39

45

38

46

48

42

41

42

28

47

39

45

22

Kansas

32

26

30

26

29

33

34

27

25

21

38

27

30

29

Kentucky

23

46

32

46

17

40

33

32

39

45

36

30

39

23

Louisiana

18

23

9

24

3

10

11

6

18

26

21

7

15

9

Maine

38

43

46

43

48

47

46

42

37

42

39

45

46

32

Maryland

19

15

3

15

14

15

4

4

20

15

17

4

5

17

Massachusetts

11

18

14

21

37

31

10

13

19

40

1

47

18

50

Michigan

8

6

10

7

19

6

8

11

6

13

4

18

8

36

Minnesota

21

33

42

32

45

35

32

45

32

30

35

48

37

49

Mississippi

31

45

36

45

4

28

38

33

31

47

48

11

41

1

Missouri

15

27

17

30

15

30

13

19

23

34

20

22

21

30

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

Montana

44

37

41

35

36

45

45

34

46

24

31

29

40

20

Nebraska

35

41

40

41

49

38

40

40

47

33

45

35

43

26

Nevada

43

1

5

1

5

2

2

15

1

4

10

1

3

14

New
Hampshire

42

44

48

42

47

43

44

46

43

41

37

49

47

44

New
Jersey

9

17

12

16

25

24

6

21

17

23

6

32

16

42

New
Mexico

37

7

7

10

8

5

24

1

12

8

25

34

6

48

New
York

2

10

1

14

9

23

1

10

10

22

2

20

2

39

North
Carolina

10

32

22

36

20

36

36

12

27

39

41

5

28

3

North
Dakota

46

48

50

48

50

50

50

50

50

46

49

50

50

37

Ohio

6

28

24

29

27

22

14

28

26

31

18

19

26

19

Oklahoma

25

24

23

22

12

16

23

23

13

36

12

13

22

11

Oregon

30

9

20

8

34

11

17

24

7

6

27

24

17

34

Pennsylvania

4

47

29

47

30

39

16

37

44

49

22

41

36

35

Rhode
Island

41

20

27

20

38

41

29

22

22

29

3

43

24

46

South
Carolina

24

21

8

25

11

13

25

2

15

27

29

2

9

8

South
Dakota

45

49

49

49

42

49

49

47

49

48

50

31

49

2

Tennessee

17

36

25

37

16

17

15

31

28

43

23

17

29

13

Texas

3

12

13

12

2

8

9

18

5

16

9

9

13

15

Utah

36

22

37

18

39

34

35

35

34

12

33

46

31

41

Vermont

48

30

47

27

44

18

48

48

33

17

32

42

44

33

Virginia

13

38

33

39

24

32

27

39

41

32

42

15

34

7

Washington

20

13

26

9

35

7

28

25

9

9

28

23

19

31

West
Virginia

34

50

44

50

33

44

41

43

48

50

43

44

48

16

Wisconsin

16

34

43

31

41

46

39

44

40

19

44

36

42

28

Wyoming

49

29

34

28

18

26

43

26

45

14

34

25

32

18

State

Population

Index

Violent

Property

Murder

Rape

Robbery

Assault

Burglary

Larceny

Auto

Inmates

New
Index *

Index/
Inmates

These
pages
compare reported crimes and imprisonment rates for every 100,000 people
for each
year in the 50 United States and rank each State's crime/imprisonment
rates.

In order
to
compare crime to punishment we created a new crime index* and divided
that
index by the ratio of inmates to crimes of each state, as reported to
the Bureau
of Justice Statistics.In an important new way, this table links crime to
punishment within
and between the States.

The
traditional
crime index is made up of the total crimes committed in each State.The
problem with the old index is that it
provides equal weight to every crime and far more property
crimes are
committed than violent crimes.Since
violent criminals make up about half the prison
population and
about ten times more property crimes are
committed than violent crimes, for the
new index* we divided the number of property crimes by ten and
added to that the number of violent crimes to make up the new index*.

Since
we developed the tables:
"Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime and Imprisonment by US
States 1978 - 2012",
we are interested in hearing how others use the table. Email: host@disastercenter.com